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Jazzkaar 2016
by Martin Longley
Jazzkaar Tallinn, Estonia April 22-May 1, 2016 The Jazzkaar festival has been an annual event in Tallinn, Estonia, since 1990, when Soviet dominance was crumbling. Its roots lie in the original 1966 and '67 jazz festivals, before these were banned by those Russian occupiers. Surely the presence of honorary hippie ...
Barry Adamson, Michael Formanek, Elliott Sharp & Rokia Traoré
by Martin Longley
Barry Adamson Rough Trade March 21, 2016 Hot on the heels of SXSW in Austin, Barry Adamson turned up for a lower-key solo show at NYC's Rough Trade store. His reputation was made as a bassist with Magazine and Nick Cave, but in the three decades since then he's ...
Live From Old York: The East Pointers, Bob Fox & Fairport Convention
by Martin Longley
The East Pointers The Black Swan February 4, 2016 Inexplicably, it seemed that around a third of the seats for this full-house gig was taken up by an all-female Norwegian posse. Even if they hadn't made this choice, it's highly likely that Canadian trio The East Pointers would have ...
Live From Old York: Lindi Ortega, Róisín Bán & 3*3 Sheffield
by Martin Longley
Lindi Ortega The Duchess January 20, 2016 Just by token of being relative youngsters, singer-guitarist Ortega and her three comrades naturally lend country music a sense of dark irony and delicate subversion. It's always been a fine line between sour gothic Depressville and glitzy sham pop-ification, sometimes even with ...
Live From Old York: The Extricated, Jim Boyes, Electric Six, Dick Gaughan & Queen Kwong
by Martin Longley
Brix & The Extricated The Duchess November 24, 2015 Brix Smith was an integral member of The Fall, between 1983 and 1989, then again, on-and-off, betwixt 1993 and 1998. Well, she was married to main man vocalist, poet and Svengali auteur Mark E. Smith. This period of the Manchester ...
Live From Old York: Michael Messer, Faris, Blazin' Fiddles & Söndörgő
by Martin Longley
Michael Messer & Faris Pocklington Arts Centre November 21, 2015 The acoustic blues weekender at Pocklington Arts Centre has become a regular fixture, led by the English guitarist Michael Messer. He combines daytime tutorial workshop sessions with a Saturday night performance that features guest appearances by the attending players, ...
Live From Birmingham: Partisans, Rascals Of Rhythm, Amok Amor, John McEntire & Schneider Kacirek
by Martin Longley
Partisans Wolverhampton Arena Theatre November 14, 2015 Partisans have now been playing together for two decades, in a completely unchanging four-piece configuration. Bonds have been formed, lines have intertwined, rapport greases repertoire negotiation, and comfort encourages greater risk-taking. The band made several comments about savouring the Arena Theatre's vibrations, ...
Live From Bilston: Samantha Fish, Jah Wobble & The Magic Band
by Martin Longley
Samantha Fish/Laurence Jones The Robin R&B Club November 11, 2015 The blues has a youthful future, across both sides of the Atlantic. Singer and guitarist Laurence Jones is the latest upstart to stir the UK scene, possessing a very 1960s sensibility, as if he's a throwback to the scene ...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Kassé Mady Diabaté, George Coleman & Tedeschi Trucks Band
by Martin Longley
Godspeed You! Black Emperor The Music Hall Of Williamsburg September 30, 2015 On the ground level, there was a tendency to simply watch the flickering images, glimmering out from old school projectors, rattlingly housed within the mixing desk corral. As most of the players in this Montréal collective, particularly ...
CocoRosie, Dastan Ensemble, Arto Lindsay, Chick Corea, Béla Fleck, John Hammond, G.Love & Trio 3
by Martin Longley
CocoRosie Webster Hall September 25, 2015 The Casady sisters are one of the quirkiest teamings in... what? Rock, folk, hip-hop, reggae, electronica, performance art? All of these, and more, are present in their wildly gambolling songs, discernible as trace elements, but none fully emerging as what could be deemed ...
